You didnt mention him. Yet the borough remained the favorite place for immigrants from Russia, China, and Puerto Rico, intermingled with traditional Brooklyn populations of African-Americans, Italians, and Jews. Vigelius and Ulmers Continental Lagerbier Brewery (later the William Ulmer Brewery) was constructed in 1872 ay Belvidere and Beaver Streets by architect Theobald Engelhardt. I remember Cypress Pool, particularly the iron filings that fell from the El. We went to St. John the Baptist way south of Broadway on Willoughby and Hart. We popped out of the Jefferson Street subway on the L train and were greeted with nothing but warehouses and lights in the distance. It may . The 1970s were not a good time to be a working-class neighborhood in New York City. Description. I remember the Catch up on the most important headlines with a roundup of essential NYC stories, delivered to your inbox daily. There was a townhouse-sized lot (probably 16 ft wide, 20ft at most) a few blocks away in Bed Stuy that was for sale a few weeks ago for 1.1mil all that while the . church. It was a Dutch settlement until 1683, when the British crown would take over Bushwick, along with other towns, and unite them under the name Kings County. What a great time. WILL BUY THEM IF FOR SALE THANK YOU JOE GAGE. It should not be missed if youre in Bushwick. Does anyone remember the toy store on Broadway and gates? My mother swears he saved my brother from death arms, What hospital were you born in. I remeber the two movie houses and then there was the Empire and the real low down Monroe,where a dime could get you 21 cartoons a three stooges a serial thriller and a couple of movies. I went to PS74 and then PS274. A few hipsters doesn't change that. What concerns your webmaster todayis his house in Bushwick, for it symbolizes this Brooklyn neighborhoodss steep decline and efforts to revive. Iguess if he did stop every time a kid raised a hand, hed never get done! 145 (happy days) and later St. Leonards RC School (not happy days) just off Wilson Ave. What a sight! Five days after the blackout, someone lit a match in an abandoned knitting mill on the corner of Knickerbocker Avenue and Bleecker Street near Myrtle Avenue. My father, Dr. Paul Basirico had his office on the first floor of our house. neighborhood. When D-Stroy turned the Bushwick Bomb Squad into the Arsonists after that harrowing incident in Knickerbocker Park, it was a move that mirrored old school pioneer Afrika Bambaataa's mission to end gang violence in the South Bronx in the late '70s with the formation of the Universal Zulu Nation. Ill put my info below hoping for a response. (Rap pioneer Grandmaster Caz later credited the nights looting of electronics stores with helping spark the spread of hip-hop music: "The next day there were a thousand new DJs.") The video made by NBC, contains a lot of footage shot with a concealed camera "with a special night vision lens" [aw!]. On the commercial strip beneath the elevated J train tracks, 45 stores were set ablaze; a few days later, what became known as the "All Hands Fire" started in an abandoned factory, taking out 23 more buildings in the heart of the neighborhood. The window tilts inward for easy cleaning and operation. On July 13th, 1977, at 8:37 p.m., a bolt of lightning struck an electrical substation in Buchanan, New York, that was responsible for taking the high-voltage power produced at the Indian Point . Street gangs used to have way cooler names like, say, the Devil's Rebels for instance. My dentist was Dr. Micelli on Gates Avenue a woman dentist which was rare in the 50s. On hot days the fire hose was hung from the basketball hoop an we would all stand under it to cool off.many happy memories . Been living here in Bushwick since 1/4/1955. Nevertheless, her photos were filled with as much liveliness as the dance floor at Studio 54 (which the photographer also . Those include Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Cypress Hill, and East New York. Mr. Pinisi helped me improve my English writing, enough that I was accepted to attend Martin Luther High School in Maspeth. We lived at 141 Eldert Street between Central and Evergreen, but around 1957 a fire started in the house next door, 139 Eldert, and the fire and water damage destroyed half the block including our house. Thank you. Please email me at elizbaumann@gmail.com. If they could eat each other, they would, if it comes down to that. It also has a Michelin star. [VIDEO] What's Left of New York City's Lost Croton Reservoir? Theyre like cavemen, a local addict named Cookie told two criminologists studying the area. We lived on Kossuth Place and I went to the old PS74 one block west on Kozciusko Street, then PS274 on Bushwick and Kozciusko. There was also the big white church on Bushwick and Himrod and the Menorah Jewish Home across Himrod on Bushwick. inside). Hi Joe, heres a link to the DOF photos from the 1940s, where you can look up neighborhoods and addresses: http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/NYCMA~7~7 I lived on Troutman between Bushwick and Evergreen. Todash, whose insurance firm has served the neighborhood for more than 40 years, can hardly believe that this is the same Bushwick that became synonymous with urban chaos during the late 1960s and early 1970s, ravaged by fires, rioting, and looting until it resembled a war zone. I assume he is associated with Scaturro Supermarkets. Giuliani passed the first substantial tax cuts in decades, as well as welfare reform that was soon expanded by federal legislation, which put many of those on public assistance back to work. Suddenly, I heard a buzzing in the streets, like a hive of bees, and I looked outside and saw a crowd of several hundred people gathering, says Todash. The Principal was Walter Shultz and the AP was a Mrs Mac Namara. The result was fire, and lots of it. It is noteworthy that the cops are being pretty rough as well- kicking a gang members ass, threatening to kill Wally Savage, and tossing a bike. We went roller skating with my relatives at the Hillside Roller Rink. Bushwick Avenue, though,offers few more of the ruins shown above. God bless everyone ! PK, I remember that old house from my childhood days. by Matt Coneybeare at 11:50 AM on March 5, 2016. Murphy's $53 billion budget: More property tax relief, spending on schools, mental health. Charming f. to Gina.. While you're here, you can order things like plantain chips with guacamole, Haitian patties filled with beef, and a platter of black rice, pikliz, and sweet green peas. I graduated in 1965. Williamsburg's premier new construction is now on the market at 70 Bushwick! Cypress pool. One worrying sign: lenders made a huge number of subprime mortgages in Bushwickmore than half of all mortgages in the area in 2005 and 2006which could mean lots of foreclosed and empty homes back on the market as the subprime crisis continues. The Harlem tenants are joining a lawsuit started by rent-stabilized tenants in Sunset Park, who argue that their apartments are being Frankensteined.. The Zestimate for this house is $400,200, which has decreased by $7,548 in the last 30 days. . View Flyer. 35 years later and Bushwick still sucks. Oddly the fire escapes dont appearin pictures taken from the 1940s. At the time, he found the Bushwick streets desolate and frightening at night. It sounds like college radio from the 90s (some of the millennials there may know what that means). The nuns used to wear those hats like the Flying Nun. Way back in 1969, when the City of New York demanded everyone take a blood test before they could get a marriage license, Dr. Davis did the test for my first husband and me. I was proud to read about your achievements in city government, congrats, I lived in Willoughby and Evsrgreen a nd worked in Willoughby nursery home and remember that building and go to KFC. You could fill a whole tiny paper bag with them for like 10 cents! In Bushwick, newly empowered cops blocked off drug-dealer-ruled streets with barriers and conducted sweeps of a neighborhood zone called the Well (since buyers could openly purchase an unending supply of drugs there). Vintage Film Show Bushwick Gangs and Brooklyn's 83rd Precinct in the 1970s. He lived with his mother in the brownstone across from the big mansion of Dr. Davis.He and I dated Ms. Puerto Rico of 1960. I went to St. Joseph Patron on Suydam St with a Frank Basirico. Faro, a Bushwick mainstay for fresh pasta and seasonal produce, is closing after eight years serving the neighborhood from its Jefferson Street location. (When I went past again in 2010, it was again occupied!). Judge Salas mansion at 992 Bushwick Aven. I recently read A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and was amazed at all of the memories I had of a place I never thought twice about. It was, in retrospect, a worst-case scenario. Perhaps in line with the 70s theme, its cash only (though theres an A.T.M. He was a great doctor and my inspiration to become a physician myself. There were also all the other stores. Whether Cookwas the true discoverer of the North Pole should be left to historians to decide. In this once-family-friendly area, nearly 60 percent of all children were born out of wedlock, and two-parent families constituted fewer than half of all households, down from 64 percent a decade earlier. The photographs were taken to improve the process of determining and recording property value assessments. The Purple Gang: Italian Harlem: 70's & 80's Very serious Italian crew from East Harlem, Turf was Pleasant Avenue from 114th Street to 120th Street, they were known as the "Farm Team" to Luchese, Bonanno, and Genovese crime families of New York. This report provides a summary of asthma indicators by neighborhood. We moved out in 1964. With fathers in short supply, gang membership spiked among teens, and the local high school had one of the worst drop-out rates in the city. We also get your email address to automatically create an account for you in our website. "People started screaming," former hotel . Visit Website. By 2010, it had been given a partial makeover. Asthma is a common lung disease and a leading cause of hospitalizations for children under 15 years old. The video made by NBC, contains a lot of footage shot with a concealed camera with a special night vision lens [aw!]. Founded in 1638, chartered by Peter Stuyvesant in 1661, Bushwick was originally Boswijck. Expensive housing sucks, protesters chanted recently outside a condo project. St. Barbaras is,if anything, more imposing inside than out, with gilding, stonework, stained glass and a magnificent pipe organ. Does anyone else know of him? We lived on Kossuth Place back in the 1950s and 60s. Only when rents and home prices skyrocketed in the late 1990snot only in the citys stable neighborhoods but also in edgier areas like Dumbo (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) and even Williamsburg, which borders Bushwickdid a new generation of deal-seeking New Yorkers begin finding their way to the still-struggling locale. Viewing NYC, all rights reserved. Jun 2, 2011, 1:42 PM. I want to know the name of a bar that was on the corner of Bushwick with a piano on the roof, THE NAME OF THE BAR WAS THE GIG IT WAS ON THE CORNER OF SCHAEFER ST & BUSHWICK AVE, Are there any pictures of the outside of The Gig of the piano-playing mannequin? Both are works of sculptor Pietro Montana. I grew up at 45 Stockholm st and went to ps 74 and PS 68, Mr. Friedman principal. Stacey, I enjoyed this thread very much. My mother sings his praises til this day. On some streets, the only thing left standing was the local church. Also remember the Little Sisters of the Poor convent and old age home on Bushwick and DeKalb. Kathy, Kathy I do remember the little sisters of the poor we lived on the next block we shopped on Knickerbocker ave only went to broadway for certain stores which I cannot remember I do reemember the shoemaker Mr.butafucco I hope I spelled his name right. A major contributor was Leonard Eppig, a local brewer whose daughters name was Barbara. After decades of shunning Bushwick, investors and builders have squarely set their sights on it. Yet the scenes of anarchic destruction, broadcast around the world, also brought the first faint signs of hope. In the central bay, molded terra-cotta ornaments Office and the brewerys trademark U identify the buildings original function and owner. Good luck trying to get a photo. It was an odd location for a doctors office with soaring ceilings, plaster walls and ceilings, a grand staircase for going upstairs, and tiled flooring. His name was Dr. Clement Davis. I remember attending functions there.. Police arrest five young gang members in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1958. Bushwick is one of the northernmost neighborhoods located in Brooklyn. Gina, I do remember Mr. Butters candy store. In the middle of a bitter mayoral race, with the fiscal crisis as backdrop, candidate Ed Koch journeyed to Bushwick to survey the devastation and promised, if elected, to begin rebuilding the neighborhood. My Dad was a constant photographer even using a movie camera to take films at times. The first flooris used as a storefront church, but the top floors seem unused for now. I still have some really great memories from P.S. I would like to say hello to all that lived on Arion Pl. Regardless of everything, I have to admit that there is something romanticly adventurous about the video as well. Hi Eric The Rent Zestimate for this home is $2,755/mo, which has increased by $2,755/mo in the last 30 days. via The Bowery Boys. He is an avid marathon runner, and spends most of his time eating, running, and working on cool stuff. My favorite teacher was Mr.Louis Vogel. My sister was his patient. I saw that it could become that again. Two-family homes in Bushwick now fetch anywhere from $500,000 to $650,000still inexpensive by New York City standards, but unthinkable in the area only a few years ago. And an advocacy group, the Youth Power Project, has been rallying the areas Latino youth against some of the new building and renovating, claiming that it will push out poor residents. first American to climb Alaskas Mount McKinley and the first explorer to reach the North Pole, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmlBxfSjWgc, http://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/NYCMA~7~7, The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano. ??? The bar name was changed to the Gig Cafe sometime during the early 60s when the clientele changed to mostly Black customers who came from across Broadway from Ocean Hill and Bedford Stuyvesant. Bayside Hills [SpliceToday] Cal Snyder in Out of Fire and Valor. These days, when Morris Todash walks the streets of Bushwick, a two-square-mile neighborhood of 100,000 people in central Brooklyn, he likes what he sees. Bushwick benefited, too, from a citywide economic revival spurred not only by the dramatic drop in crime but also by a more business-friendly attitude in New York City. I am approaching my 87th birthday and those memories are still so vivid in my mind. This 1890 shingle-style home, built for a Charles Lindemann in 1890, was recently restored. This mansionwas built for Thomas Bossert in 1898; Bossert went on to build Brooklyn Heights Bossert Hotel. The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act made it easier for southern Europeans to immigrate to America. Went to PS 123 and PS 162. Those were fond memorie. The Angel of Victory With Peace was installed here in 1921 and honors Bushwicks 93 casualties in World War I. Halsey Bops went out of their territory to go against Feb 13, 2020 "The Heart of Chinatown," 70 Mulberry Street; Feb 7, 2020 New York City Hurricane Relief for Puerto Rico: 1899; Feb 1, 2020 Artist in . Ellen, Wow yes I always remember that and never forgot it, that going back 64 years ago, I lived on Eldert Street, Hi Gina.. what class were you in .. in the first grade in at P.S 274.. was your teachers name Ms. Salvatore? By . I dont know if the Diocese of Brooklyn sold the property or what happened, but then it started deteriorating during the late 70s, and then by the 80s going into the 90s it appeared derelict. Some looters tore away more iron gates, shattered store windows, and carted away anything they could carry. John and Michael on 16th Street in 1980. I was told it was a somewhat Gay bar,but never knew that.It was around since the early fifties as I can remember. Best regards, Kathy, I also remember the old myrtle ave el. Enjoy. Morris Todash showed up at his small storefront to assess the damage and noticed that the furniture outlet next door, protected by iron gates, remained undamaged. New York also rebuilt its police and fire forces and constructed a new precinct house in Bushwickmoves that helped reduce crime in the area during the early eighties. Viewing NYC is a site that features videos and photos of the art, comedy, culture, food, history and events of New York City. Multifamily 9.65% CAP 6 Units. I hated the needles in my behind as I lay on the examination table looking outside the window at the elevated train tracks. But last year, there were 13. Bushwicks civic fabric had unraveled so completely that any restitching now seemed impossible. There, a joint effort by the New York Housing Partnership and a leading community group, the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, has built 300 housing units. Developed by German immigrants in the mid-1800's the neighborhood was an industrial area with several breweries. Davis was a PILAR of the area community at that time. Hi: then went to Willoughby JHS and then Bushwick HS. The Brooklyn Brewery has been providing residents with chilled pints since 1988, near McCarren Park. Details ; Units; Map; Photos; Who Should Apply; How to Apply ; Details. Did anyone live near Stockholm street? The following afternoon, with power now restored to much of the city, Dereszewski headed over from his home in Greenpoint to take a stroll down Broadway. Now Im getting all nostalgic. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Its been removed, and in the current Google Street View, you can just see the old door to the void. 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